Re: [OSR-devel] killall and init scripts

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:09:54 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Wed 14/01/09 15:37 , Marc Grimme <gr...@at...> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 12:07:11 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have GlusterFS OSR working and I'll be sending a patch when I
> >
> > have done a
> >
> > > bit more testing including rebuilding a fresh system from scratch
> >
> > to test
> >
> > > my notes/documentation which I'll also be submitting.
> >
> > Sounds great. I'll be happy to bring this upstream.
>
> Thanks. Sorry it took this long (I first mentioned the idea some months
> ago). There were some bugs in GlusterFS that made it too unstable for
> production (for my use-cases at least), so I left it on hold until I was
> happy with it in the standard environment.
>
> Some of the notable things that were required to get OSR working with it
> were: - fuse needs /tmp to exist before it'll work. The error it returns is
> entirely misleading, and this took a while to get to the bottom of. Until
> now, OSR didn't include a /tmp directory. - RPM refused to work because it
> is based on BerkeleyDB, which requires writable mmap support, which isn't
> available in fuse. The solution for that was to convert the RPM DB to
> SQLite.
That's interesting cause I always wandered if it is possible to change the db 
underneath. We also have so issues with gfs and rpmdb<berkeleydb>. Can you 
point out some online resources on how to do this?
>
> > > Either way, I copied the halt script across and added glusterfs to
> >
> > the list
> >
> > > of things to not kill (-x parameter), but this didn't appear to
> >
> > make any
> >
> > > difference. The man page for killall/killall5 on RHEL5 doesn't
> >
> > appear to
> >
> > > list the -x option (although I did find a reference to this
> >
> > parameter being
> >
> > > added in Debian in 2006). Is this known to work on RHEL/CentOS 5,
> >
> > or is
> >
> > > there a modified killall required for this distro?
> >
> > Normally this binary that does this killing is the rpm
> > SysVinit-comoonics
> > found at
> >
> > http://download.atix.de/yum/comoonics/redhat-el5/productive/x86_64/RPMS/.
> >
> > This provides a new killall found at /usr/comoonics/sbin. This is
> > called by
> > halt and accepts the -x as option.
> > Let me know if this is enough information.
>
> I'll double-check, but I'm almost certain that this package was installed.
> Does the same package also include the modified halt init script?
No those are added by comoonics-bootimage-initscripts. These provide the 
patches needed.

-- 
Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
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